Thursday, September 29, 2016

For the Record: Trump wants guns taken away

Are you a U.S. citizen who carries a gun? According to Donald Trump, you should be considered suspicious — at least in Chicago.

After the Republican nominee called for a revival of “stop-and-frisk” policing, Trump Thursday clarified on Fox News that he only meant police officers should stop and search people deemed suspicious in the Windy City.

And people who carry guns? They should be stopped, Trump said.

"You know, [the police are] proactive and if they see a person possibly with a gun or they think may have a gun, they will see the person and they'll look and they'll take the gun away," said Trump said. “They will stop, they will frisk, and they will take the gun away, and they don’t have anything to shoot with.”

This is the same Trump who, after the Orlando nightclub shooting, lamented that the victims who’d been partying inside weren’t carrying guns, a statement the NRA disagreed with.